Thing Prequel Approaches

It's been all quiet on The Thing prequel front of late, but a Twitter posting by Production Weekly suggests that the shoot will commence soon.

According to their post, "Universal's prequel to John Carpenter's classic thriller The Thing is due to begin filming March and continue till June in Toronto."

Matthias van Heijningen, Jr. will direct, while writer Ronald D. Moore told us the following about the project back in March: "It's really a companion piece to the Carpenter version. We're telling the story of the Norwegian camp that found the Thing before the Kurt Russell group did, so it's very buried in the continuity [and] it's supposed to be the other story that you saw part of. So we didn't want to reinvent it. It was really much the opposite. We really wanted to have this flow seamlessly into what he did."

Cheers to ShocktilyouDrop for the heads up, and look out for casting announcements soon.